Sentences with phrase «out of standardized testing even»

Professor Daniel Koretz points out that there was a movement in New York City by parents to opt out of standardized testing even before the Common Core.

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School administrators are closely watching a letter campaign that's taking place in the days before school starts that could lead to even more children opting out of state standardized tests.

Elia is supportive of the controversial Common Core standards, even as thousands of students opted out of April's round of standardized tests in New York.

Dissatisfaction with standardized testing is growing in all quarters, and even The New York Times has now recognized that parents choosing to opt their children out of standardized tests come from a variety of backgrounds.

This 18 minutes includes information on the educational policies supporting the history of high - stakes standardized tests in the U.S., how educational policymakers (including U.S. Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama) have unwaveringly «advanced» this history, how our nation's over-reliance on such test - based policies have done nothing for our nation for the past ten years (as cited in this clip, even though they have really done little to nothing for now more than 30 years), how and why the opt - out movement is still sweeping the nation, and the like.

But as directed by a memo released by Commissioner Pryor's office last December, Connecticut superintendents are being told to mislead, even lie, to any parents who seek to opt their children out of Connecticut's misguided standardized testing fiasco.

Rather than use that vehicle to speak out about the misuse of standardized testing, CABE and CAPPS signed onto a political agenda that failed to even mention the word testing let alone articulate a position about why the overuse of standardized testing is unfair, discriminatory and is damaging our children and our system of public education.

Even after the proposal was modified by the Connecticut General Assembly is still held out as a prime example of the corporate education reform industry's obsession with more standardized testing and inappropriate teacher evaluation programs that utilize standardized test results.

It doesn't create much «buzz» to point out that even in spite of constantly moving targets, fluctuating «cut scores» on standardized tests, and daily changes to state teacher evaluation systems, our teachers are better prepared than they have ever been, are being expected to do more with less, and — amazingly — are doing it.